Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Cerebral’s investigation concluded that the data might be considered protected health information and that it had failed to make sure that these third parties met HIPAA requirements for protecting PHI. According to the letter, Cerebral has been using such technology since it began doing business on October 12, 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

In spring 2021, emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts were nearly 51% higher for adolescent girls compared with the same time period in 2019. In 2019, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) received funding for five different statewide behavioral health programs. 570 counties in the U.S.

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AMD Telemedicine

JUNE 28, 2022

Healthcare providers have been steadily increasing their use of telehealth over the past decade, but the COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for the rapid adoption of this technology, and it’s here to stay. Rapid Adoption of Telehealth Can Lead to Mistakes — Be Aware of Telehealth Challenges and Opportunities.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re active in the telemedicine world (or just paying attention to it), then you know that virtual care’s benefits aren’t always matched by its adoption rates. The potential to transform healthcare globally is there – but somehow the actual telemedicine deployments aren’t always happening where they can do the most good.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

In 2019, Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, started looking at telehealth options to provide its patients with an on-demand virtual care service with a focus on urgent care-type needs. Gerald Champion opted to go with the telehealth technology of its EHR vendor. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. Prior to COVID-19, MCHS offered 45 of its more than 90 specialties via telehealth in its clinical facilities. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Lighthouse Telehealth is a subsidiary of Harbor, formed in 2018 to meet the growing demand for telehealth. "Rather than just a telephonic intervention, the clinician was able to visibly assess the patient using our Vidyo telehealth platform and could see that the patient had relapsed and was at serious risk of overdose."

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InTouch Health

APRIL 29, 2019

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) held its 2019 Annual Conference and Expo from April 14-16, 2019 in New Orleans, LA. InTouch staff members attended, eager to tap into the latest news and information in regard to the telehealth industry. Telemedicine also provides potential cost savings for providers.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 21, 2023

This non-profit organization claimed to offer psychotherapy services to senior living facility residents in the Chicago area from 2019 to 2021. This week’s example of important HIPAA issues focused on the recently announced Chicago court case against a single social worker and two business people operating with a non-profit company.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Today, the majority of primary care physicians fret that telemedicine is way too time-consuming and complicated for them to execute in their already busy practices. According to a September 2020 market intelligence study published by BIS Research , the global telemedicine market was estimated at $21.55 2) HIPAA Privacy and Security.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Name two dominant influences on 21st-century healthcare and it’s a safe bet that telemedicine and cybersecurity would make the list. Some providers have ignored both trends, dismissing the benefits of telemedicine while underestimating the need for a strong cybersecurity program. More than 41 million?telehealth The answer?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2019

"Patients use emocha, a HIPAA-compliant mobile application, on their smartphone to video record themselves taking their medication, report side effects and receive medication reminders," Mbakwem said. "They have access to two-way, HIPAA-secure messaging to communicate with their healthcare provider. " MARKETPLACE.

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Henry Kotula

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Amazon has ended its support for its HIPAA-compliant Alexa health tool, Modern Healthcare reported. Amazon rolled out the tools on Alexa in 2019 , offering applications with a collection of hospitals, as well as telehealth company Teladoc Health and pharmacy benefits management company Express Scripts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

” These challenges prompted Mayo Clinic to develop a tele-neonatology program that allows neonatologists to establish a real-time audio/video telemedicine connection with care teams in community hospitals during these high-risk, low-frequency neonatal emergencies. ” PROPOSAL. " Dr. Jennifer Fang, Mayo Clinic. respectively.”

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TheraNest

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Unlike the secure and HIPAA-compliant telehealth video platform provided by TheraNest, Apple’s FaceTime is not HIPAA compliant and therefore should never be used to see clients or complete telehealth sessions. However, even with the bug fixed FaceTime remains a non-HIPAA compliant platform for telehealth sessions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Telehealth and telemedicine. The post 23 Risks for Healthcare Organizations in 2019 appeared first on BHM Healthcare Solutions. Rather than ranking the risks, Crowe put them under five categories, although top risks may be relevant to multiple categories. 340B Drug Pricing Program. Nonphysician contracts. IT governance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Telehealth giant Teladoc has accused another player in the space, Amwell, of infringing on several of its patents. As the COVID-19 crisis has rocketed, the longevity – and potential profitability – of telemedicine back into the public sphere, Teladoc and Amwell have carved out large sectors of the virtual care market.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 21, 2023

This non-profit organization claimed to offer psychotherapy services to senior living facility residents in the Chicago area from 2019 to 2021. This week’s example of important HIPAA issues focused on the recently announced Chicago court case against a single social worker and two business people operating with a non-profit company.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 21, 2020

Telemedicine can bring advanced and faster care to the elderly in several ways. By utilizing telehealth, providers can treat with diagnostic, therapeutic, and care management services that otherwise would have needed to be provided in-person and thus with increased risk. Preparing for Telehealth Restrictions.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. But even trust in the most trusted steward, my doctor, eroded between 2019 and 2020.

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iSALUS Healthcare

APRIL 9, 2019

It takes more in 2019 than in the past to keep patients engaged and pleased with their care. These tools include things like the patient portal, online billing services, appointment reminders, the mobile app, and telehealth. Telehealth offers multiple solutions to problems that patients have faced for years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

" Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have. We selected Amwell as our telehealth vendor and planned to initiate implementation during the first quarter of 2020." " Then COVID-19 hit. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2019

Medicine Delivery – medication will be delivered to patients with absolute data security as Samitivej adheres to the data protection standards mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Samitivej Virtual Hospital will be available from April 1, 2019, with services on offer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

As we do each year, the Amwell team has selected from a highly competitive field of clients those who stand out for their innovation and achievement in telehealth. Only three of the 17 hospitals in the IU Health system had access to 24/7 psychiatric care at the beginning of 2019. Indiana University Health.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen. This is particularly concerning when personal health data is downloaded to an app that may fall out of the protection of HIPAA. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Even as I write this, the momentum of telehealth is bulldozing its way through dated reimbursement policies. Over the past two months, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun shifting its policies in favor of telemedicine and telehealth services. But where will those profits come from? Effective Jan.

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Mend

APRIL 13, 2022

A 2019 study of one million patients revealed shocking data about missed appointments. We scaled our telehealth offerings and introduced the industry’s first AI-powered no-show predicting solution. It also puts more patients in your office (or telehealth office), and more profits in your pocket. Alternative Telemedicine Options.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 10, 2019

Sure, sometimes people describe GlobalMed as a real-time healthcare delivery system company or the worldwide leader in telemedicine solutions. 1 - We bring telemedicine to everyone. Other telemedicine companies require patients to see unfamiliar providers. 3 - We make telemedicine easy and secure.

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care innovations

JANUARY 9, 2019

Though Roth makes it clear that “virtual care” is often used synonymously with other terms for digital healthcare delivery like telehealth and telemedicine, it’s specifically the “virtual” aspect that many experts see as the real harbinger of things to come. Virtual Reality in Healthcare: ‘Playing an Increasingly Larger Role’.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Remote patient monitoring technologies are akin to telemedicine technologies, since they automatically observe and report on patients, often with chronic illnesses, so caregivers can remotely keep tabs on patients. The system can be used to conduct telehealth visits between two or more clinics.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

4, 2019 — GlobalMed, a Microsoft Gold partner and one of the first Federal Independent Software Vendors (ISV) for Microsoft, today announced the availability of its virtual care platform as a service, eNcounter ®, in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Microsoft Azure.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 5, 2024

million deaths in 2019. Telehealth platforms Telehealth platforms serve as the communication hub between patients and healthcare providers in the realm of RPM. What role does telemedicine play in COPD management?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

While Peloton was a punchline in some peoples’ jokes at the 2019 holiday season ( see here ), the company had an enviable growing waiting list in 2020 — the right thing at the right time.

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